True love requited: or, The baliff's daughter of Islington. The young-man's friends the maid did scorn, 'cause she was poor and left forlorn, they sent the esquire to London fair, to be an apprentice seven year. And when he out of's [sic] time was come, he met his love a going home, and then to end all farther strife, he took the maid to be his wife. To a north-country tune. Or, I have a good old mother at home. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B06238 of text R228607 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing T2735). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B06238 Wing T2735 Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.8[457] 99887921 ocm99887921 183570 2240900117

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B06238) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 183570) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books; Tract supplement ; A5:2[361]) True love requited: or, The baliff's daughter of Islington. The young-man's friends the maid did scorn, 'cause she was poor and left forlorn, they sent the esquire to London fair, to be an apprentice seven year. And when he out of's [sic] time was come, he met his love a going home, and then to end all farther strife, he took the maid to be his wife. To a north-country tune. Or, I have a good old mother at home. 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (woodcuts). Printed for P. Brooksby at the Golden Ball in Pye-corner., [London] : [between 1670-1696] Place and date of publication suggested by Wing. Verse: "There was a youth, and a well-belov'd youth ..." Another edition of Wing T2735 has 'Bayliffs daughter' in title. Trimmed. Reproduction of original in the British Library. eng Ballads, English -- 17th century. eebo True love requited: or, The baliff's daughter of Islington. The young-man's friends the maid did scorn, 'cause she was poor and left forlorn, they sen anon 1696 1 485 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2008-02 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-06 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-07 Sampled and proofread 2008-07 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
True Love Requited : Or , The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington . The young-man's Friends the Maid did scorn , 'Cause she was poor and left forlorn ; They sent the Esquire to London fair , To be an Apprentice seven year . And when he out on 's time was come , He met his Love a going home , And then to end all farther strife , He took the Maid to be his Wife . To a North-Country Tune . Or , I have a good old Mother at home .

THere was a youth , and a well-belov'd youth and he was a Esquires Son , He loved the Bayliffs daughter dear that lived in Islington . She was coy , and she would not believe that he did love her so ; No , nor at any time she would any countenance to him shew . But when his friends did understand his fond and foolish mind , They sent him up to fair London an Apprentice for to bind . And when he had been seven long years and his Love he had not seen , Many a tear have I shed for her sake when she little thought of me .

All the Maids of Islington when forth to sport and play ; All but the Bayliffs Daughter dear , she secretly stole away . She put off her Gown of gray , and put on her puggish Attire ; She 's up to fair London gone her true Love to require . As she went along the Road , the weather being hot and dry , There was she aware of her true Love , at length came riding by . She stept to him as red as any Rose , and took him by the Bridal Ring , I pray you kind Sir give me one penny to ease my weary Limb. I prithee sweetheart canst thou tell me where that thou wast born ? At Islington kind Sir , said she , where I have had many a scorn . I prithee sweet-heart canst thou tell me whether thou dost know The Bailiffs Daughter of Islington ? she 's dead , Sir , long ago . Then will I sell my goodly Steed , my Saddle , and my Bow , I will into some far Country , where no man doth me know . O stay , O stay , thou goodly Youth she 's alive , she is not dead ; Here she standeth by thy side , and is ready to be thy Bride . O farewell grief , and welcome joy , ten thousand times and more ; For now I have seen my own true Love , that I thought I should have seen no more .

Printed for P. Brooksby at the Golden Ball in Pye-corner .